Tony Abbott, Australia’s Prime Minister, turned to me on a beach in August last year and said “Are you running hard or soft?” We happened to be crossing the starting line at the same time in a fun run along Sydney’s Northern Beaches. I spent the next 13 km trying to come up with a more… Continue Reading

Early October and the mulberry tree over my back fence is laden down with fruit. I picked three kilos to freeze in less than half an hour over the weekend … I’ll be heading out again this afternoon to pick more. And, once the crop is finished, it should be time for the strawberries to… Continue Reading

’ I’ve been writing this brain health blog since 2013, and it has become one of my life’s great passions – my ‘north star’. I wake up every morning buzzing with excitement about the day ahead. Besides trying my hardest to be the best Mum and wife I can be, my passion is writing about… Continue Reading

The days are long, but the years are short. I repeated that mantra to myself many afternoons when my boys were small. Now they’re both at school it seems even more poignant. Because the years were short. They flew by. It just didn’t seem like it at the time, especially when I’d had given anything… Continue Reading

I’ve been making my own yogurt on and off for years (didn’t take me for a hippy did you?) I’m a kiwi and many families have an EasiYo system. Well, system makes it sound way fancier than it actually is … I just pop the culture mix and water into a jar, and then… Continue Reading